Multiformer: A Head-Configurable Transformer-Based Model for Direct Speech Translation

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العنوان: Multiformer: A Head-Configurable Transformer-Based Model for Direct Speech Translation
المؤلفون: Sant, Gerard, Gállego, Gerard I., Alastruey, Belen, Costa-Jussà, Marta R.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Multimedia, Computer Science - Sound, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing
الوصف: Transformer-based models have been achieving state-of-the-art results in several fields of Natural Language Processing. However, its direct application to speech tasks is not trivial. The nature of this sequences carries problems such as long sequence lengths and redundancy between adjacent tokens. Therefore, we believe that regular self-attention mechanism might not be well suited for it. Different approaches have been proposed to overcome these problems, such as the use of efficient attention mechanisms. However, the use of these methods usually comes with a cost, which is a performance reduction caused by information loss. In this study, we present the Multiformer, a Transformer-based model which allows the use of different attention mechanisms on each head. By doing this, the model is able to bias the self-attention towards the extraction of more diverse token interactions, and the information loss is reduced. Finally, we perform an analysis of the head contributions, and we observe that those architectures where all heads relevance is uniformly distributed obtain better results. Our results show that mixing attention patterns along the different heads and layers outperforms our baseline by up to 0.7 BLEU.
Comment: NAACL-SRW 2022
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07100
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2205.07100
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv